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Available To The Right Buyer: Sun Microsystems
antediluvian writes "The Seattle Times reports Sun Microsystems shares surged forward on speculation the computer maker may be bought by a rival company. Prospective buyers could include Dell, IBM or Hewlett-Packard. Computer sales of rival companies have been outpacing sales of Sun's machines. Over the past three years Sun's stock has declined 92 percent."
Nah, Ebay doesn't deal with items that auction well below the penny.
Why would you hope that "...Java will be gone for good"? Java is a great language/platform and the only seriously competition to .Net. Are you dying to see everything gobbled up by the Evil Empire?????????? ...and how in the hell that post isn't marked as "Troll" is really beyond me. The moderators are totally asleep at the wheel.
1) Microsoft owns the desktop 2) Microsoft introduces .net, which makes Windows the only viable server platform if you want to use .net clients.
2.5) (you can argue that any web services platform can be used for .net clients and while that might be somewhat true it is less convenient. Also, how long will it be true?)
3) step 3, Microsoft owns the server room
The Sun and Apple combination are, put together, the two only companies that can challenge that.
In the long term there is a possibility that IBM with Linux may challenge Microsoft but that day is not even close.
Well, that is my take on it.
The Internet is full. Go Away!!!
Agreed. Think there is gnashing of teeth now over Office licenses???? Imagine how bad Microsoft could stick .Net licensing up your backside once your whole company runs on .Net.
The cash they have on hand NOW would look like pocketchange compared to that scenerio.
God forbid the day that Microsoft controls anything more than it controls right now. It would bankrupt corporate America!